The Fourth Lingshi Financial Crisis

Chapter 219 Destocking

While Han and Yang were having a secret conversation, another scout from the Haiya Fleet brought news from the other side of the outlying island strait:

The sea cliff fleet blockade failed, Tian Beixi ran away!
And the ship responsible for blocking that sea area is the Yuxiang, the deputy flagship of the Haiya Fleet.

Just as Yang Lu expected, Tian Beixi boarded a Huoyun State light merchant ship, trying to escape from the outlying island while taking advantage of the chaos.

The Great Formation of Thousand Miles of Smoke and Waves will only prevent practitioners from entering, but will not prevent them from leaving.When a ship sails from the inside of the outlying island into the foggy sea outside the outlying island, it doesn’t even need to navigate, just steer the boat to sail forward at will, and the Great Array of Thousands of Miles of Misty Waves will automatically send the boat that enters the foggy sea out of the range covered by the formation .

As long as he can get into the sea of ​​fog outside the outlying island, Tian Beixi will be able to escape successfully.

However, Yuxiang, as the deputy flagship of the Haiya Fleet, is far from being comparable to ordinary merchant ships in terms of tonnage and speed. After discovering that Tian Beixi was trying to escape with the boat, Yuxiang immediately approached the opponent quickly by virtue of its speed advantage. Ballista player Shen Xiaotao Not only did he live up to expectations, the main mast of Tian Beixi's ship collapsed with a single shot, causing the speed of the target merchant ship to drop by [-]%.

Tian Beixi tried to fight back, but the mana in his body had bottomed out.

The Huoyunzhou merchant ship only flew out a dull light blade, which barely cut down the foremast of the Yuxiang, and there was no more movement. It was this light blade that made the captain of the Yuxiang confirm Tian Beixi The presence.

The Yuxiang has three main masts and seven or eight auxiliary sails. If one mast is cut off, it will not affect the speed at all.
However, Han Fulai had clearly hinted in advance that the captain of the Yuxiang could not really catch Tianbeixi, so the Yuxiang did not continue to chase, but instead dropped anchor on the spot, watching the Huoyunzhou merchant ship slowly sail into the sea of ​​mist and mist around the outlying island. , as long as Tian Beixi's brain is not broken, it can be seen that the Haiya Fleet deliberately let her go.

After learning that Tian Beixi had successfully escaped, only Shi Yi was the only one left in Guhong Island's senior management.

The careerist who "undercuts the top" and murdered the lord of the original Guhong Island is actually not outstanding in himself, otherwise he would not be easily emptied by Tian Beixi. In order to survive, he quickly told Han Fulai the information he knew honestly And Yang Lu, but he knows little about the most important black powder.

Seeing that Shi Yi could not get any valuable information, Han Fulai ordered someone to serve him with delicious food and drinks. After returning to Haiya City, he would be sent to Yangjiang Port of Huoyun Prefecture through a regular merchant ship gift. Hand it over to Tian Beixi himself.

Favors have been sold to this point, and it is almost done.

As the saying goes, stay on the front line, so we can meet each other in the future. In the outlying island war, everyone is just doing business, and only doing a good job in the aftermath. From now on, the Haiya Chamber of Commerce and Huoyun Prefecture will still be close trading partners!

With Tian Beixi successfully escaping the blockade, the Haiya Fleet also lost the meaning of staying on the outlying islands.

Fully loaded with [-] prisoners of war on Guhong Island, the Haiya Fleet set off for Yanbo Island again in the evening of the same day under the "farewell" of the coalition forces on the outlying islands, and then returned to Hanghaiya City from Yanbo Island.

Just as the Haiya Fleet was gradually sailing out of the outlying island strait, the substitute flag bearer of the Ruicheng suddenly reported loudly: "Guard Han, there seems to be a merchant ship from Huoyun State in the distance, do you want to catch up with it? ?”

Due to the fragmented terrain of the outlying islands, the army of Guhong Island also needs to improve its logistics supply system when attacking the city.

Although Huoyun Prefecture did not send troops to directly interfere with the outlying islands, it also sent a small number of merchant ships to provide logistical support for the Guhong Island army. The merchant ship that Tian Beixi took when he fled was one of them.It's just that the merchant ship in front of everyone has obviously experienced battles, the mast and deck are riddled with holes, and the speed of the ship is like a turtle crawling.

The battle had been over for several hours, and it had just sailed out of the outlying island strait.

Han Fulai pointed to the mainmast of the opponent's ship, which was cut off at the middle, and asked loudly: "This Huoyun State merchant ship was obviously attacked by the ballista of our Haiya Fleet. Why did it appear here?"

After several rounds of semaphore, the flag bearer of the Ruicheng reported: "The Yuxiang replied that this Huoyunzhou merchant ship was forced to stop by the way when they were just chasing Tianbeixi. The Yuxiang and Yufeng are asking for your instructions. How should it be handled?"

Obviously, Tian Beixi did not break through alone just now.

She probably arranged for many Huoyunzhou merchant ships to break through together, and then the merchant ships covered each other.

It's a pity that the speed and firepower of the Haiya Fleet's merchant ships far exceeded Tian Beixi's expectations. Before these merchant ships broke out, the Yuxiang and Yufeng relied on their speed advantage and ballista firepower to push these scattered Huoyunzhou merchant ships one by one. stop.

Han Fulai pondered for a moment, and then ordered decisively: "Send the order, the ballista salvo, and sink it on the spot!"

The flag bearer thought he had heard it wrong, so he confirmed again: "Manager Han, the target merchant ship has completely lost its combat effectiveness. According to the observation by the lookout, there are not even a few living people on the target ship!"

Han Fulai's expression sank, and he severely reprimanded: "Destroy the Huoyun State forces that invaded the outlying islands, this is the highest order of the Wuliang Sword Sect! Immediately send an order to sink it with a ballista... This is an order!"

Seeing that Han Fulai's tone was not friendly, the flag bearer didn't dare to ask any more questions, and quickly issued a flag to all members of the Haiya Fleet:
Ballista salvo!

All the ships of the Haiya Fleet were greatly surprised when they received the semaphore of "Calista Salvo" from the Ruicheng.

In order to force the Huoyunzhou light merchant ship to stop as soon as possible, the Yuxiang almost plowed its surface with a ballista, not only smashing the merchant ship's side into a sieve, but even the crew had few survivors .

Now Han Fulai actually ordered to continue firing ballista salvos, what exactly does this mean?
Isn't this whip corpse?

Shen Xiaotao, who operated the Yuxiang ballista, saw the semaphore of the neighboring Ruicheng firing the ballista three times in a row, and he was also a little confused: "Team leader Qin, this Huoyunzhou merchant ship is already a ghost ship. Do you want to keep shooting?"

However, Team Leader Qin knocked him on the head severely, and cursed: "Didn't you listen to what Guanshi Han said just now? Don't let go of a remnant of Huoyun State. Let's beat him up and finish it off. Where did you get so many?" question?"

But Shen Xiaotao did not buy it easily: "The captain just let us let Tian Beixi go on purpose, why is Manager Han trying to kill a crumbling ship now? The loss of our ballista is not cheap, let alone if the ballista is damaged The mechanical mechanism itself is costly to maintain..."

After getting along for a long time, team leader Qin also knows that Shen Xiaotao is a character who breaks the casserole and asks the end.

Considering that this kid was very respectful to him all the way, not only did he not expose his little trick of corruption, but he also gave himself the great credit for forcing Tian Beixi to stop on the ship, so that he was expected to be promoted to the third officer of the Yuxiang Team Leader Qin couldn't lose his temper with Shen Xiaotao, so he said patiently: "Do you think that you are the only one who is smart and everyone else is stupid? In my opinion, Manager Han is not afraid of spending money at all, but I'm afraid we don't spend enough money!"

Shen Xiaotao said in amazement: "Why is Manager Han afraid that we don't spend enough money?"

Team Leader Qin sneered: "The Han family is in charge of the arms business in Haiya City. The more ordnance we consume, the more orders the Han family will receive for stock replenishment after the war. If it was before the start of the war, Manager Han might still Worried about not having enough combat supplies, but after the battle, Han Guanshi will be worried that the combat supplies will not be used up!"

(End of this chapter)